3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HIST 3410. An examination of the social, political, economic, commercial, legal, sexual, and racial issues faced by American women since the end of World War II. Topics will include the domestic containment of the 1950s, Betty Friedan's 1963 groundbreaking study, The Feminine Mystique, birth control, Roe V Wade, the origins of protest movements, women's liberation, defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, and the rise of radical and conservative feminism.